Essential Hip-Hop Records on Vinyl

I don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-ab...

There's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...

Everybody knew 6 months ago that Kanye's album was gonna be serious. Ever since the buzz on his solo stuff started, he's been producing bigger and ...

What can I say about this album? Easily in the top 10 of all time, there is no way to pick favorites on this album. Not even one okay track on here...

Operation Doomsday faithfully reissued on standard black double vinyl with the OG cover, just like it was back in 1999 on the original Fondle 'Em r...

DONALD GLOVER'S 2013 BREAKOUT SOPHOMORE LP. This is the album that transformed the Donald from a prime-time television actor with a little passion ...

When Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, toss...

4th full-length from Tyler, The Creator! And yes, it's the one where he raps "I've been kissing white boys since 2004" ("I Ain't Got Time"). There ...

Childish Gambino unleashes the funk on his 3rd studio album. Awaken, My Love! is a bold departure from the hip-hop sound of his previous work, and...

"Mac Miller's cult favourite mixtape Faces is finally available on triple vinyl. The project, which originally debuted on Mother's Day 2014, is a v...

The Divine Feminine is the 4th studio album from Mac Miller. Originally released in 2016, the record finds the late Pittsburgh artist crooning as m...

"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dr...

It's been 20(+) years since Paul's Boutique came out, and to celebrate this landmark release Capitol has pressed it up onto a nice thick slab of 18...

Tribe's masterful debut jazz thing album. Surprise favorites like "After Hours" and "Footprints" continually grow on you between the hits "Bonita A...

2011 was huge for The Weeknd. He released three mixtapes —House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence—which in 2012 were remastered & co...

Finally repressed! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as...

The long-awaited collaborative album between Kanye West & Kid Cudi, aka Kids See Ghosts, came as the third release of a series of 5 LPs executi...

It's those catchy choruses that get you first. Outkast got a way of pulling you into their albums with these addictive hooks. You can't deny the no...

Operation Doomsday never sounded better! For the Silver Age Set, the classic Doom album gets a fresh remaster. The records themselves are housed in...

What do you follow up Illmatic, one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, with? For Nas, the answer was It Was Written, the Queensborough MC'...

Norcal stand up! For some reason Death Grips makes sense, especially with No Love Deep Web. The trio of MC Ride and production team Zach Hill &...

Louis Kevin Celestin AKA Kaytranada was introduced to FL Studio when he was 15. In 2012, the Montreal-based producer posted his remix of Janet Jack...

Norcal stand up! For some reason Death Grips makes sense, especially with No Love Deep Web. The trio of MC Ride and production team Zach Hill &...

black double vinyl pressing gatefold sleeve music label: Universal 2009

Official pressing of The Weeknd's sophomore mixtape! By this point in the Weeknd's burgeoning career we were started to get a better picture of the...

This official Bad Boy reissue of Ready To Die is obviously a much welcome release - finally making one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time a...

The Roots' unknown first album, produced so they would have something to sell on their first European tour and released independently in 1993 befor...

Danny Brown borrows from Joy Division and a novel by J. G. Ballard for the title of his 4th album, Atrocity Exhibition, which features guests like ...

Can't believe we've never had this one up in the Lab before. K Lim said it best on his review of the Black Nostaljack 12" - "If any of you think th...

Flying Lotus finally drops his much anticipated and heavily hyped third album on Warp! Cosmogramma raises the bar to outerspace heights and goes ab...

Pulling a page from Del's notebook, Madlib created Quasimoto in the studio laboratory. Part of the whole invasion schema, the Madlib production is ...

Deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Nas' classic debut! Columbia has pulled out all the stops to commemorate this landmark in hip hop's history. Fro...

Malibu comes by way of Venice and Compton, and it is the latter that really broke out the Oxnard triple-threat (he sings, raps, and produces) forme...

Earl Sweatshirt made a name for himself when he went missing. His buzz was EVERYWHERE. He was not. What happened to him? The word is his moms was c...

So damn good. The sophomore album from Devonte Hynes aka Blood Orange is here, and it's something of a revelation. With pop music becoming more and...

30 years old and still potent as ever... Cypress Hill's self-titled debut. The album, available on colored vinyl, features audio remastered from th...

They’re both popping as solo artists, and after teasing fans with a fire collaborative EP, “Link Up & Suede,” the cali duo consisting of produc...